Nov 02 2008
Renewed Vows To Grad School
The choices and life decisions I tend to make are usually painful and filled with mistakes until I make definite choices that I stick with through thick and thin. I have been contemplating my current job and position within the company I work for lately and have come to a conclusion about my future as I know it.
Despite my searching for jobs elsewhere for the past few months, I have learned a lot and continue to learn in my position. My manager and supervisors have gone to bat for me on several occasions and I think this company is somewhere I really want to put some time in for the next few years. I can’t keep switching jobs every time I realize my current situation isn’t perfect. Nowhere is perfect, so there’s no point in looking. I like going to work now, which is rare for most people. Also, I am challenged often, which I love. I’m feeling really grateful to some people I work for and I’ve never felt that before. I want to stay.
Seeing as I plan on making a multi-year stand where I work, I think I’ll start night classes next semester (if I can) or as soon as possible. If they can help me, that’d be great. If not, I’ll take out whatever low interest loans that I can get. I won’t let school get in the way of my performance as I really want to get to a certain point in the organization.
This will all be quite the challenge, but that’s what I live for.
Good luck on starting the night classes for grad school. I know how hard it is to do full time work and school. People say an education is always worth the sacrifices you make for it, and they are right, but that doesn’t make it any less difficult to go back to school once you’ve been out of the swing of things. I’m halfway through my Master’s and it’s been really difficult sticking with it after the AF PCSed us halfway across the country midway through my degree. I’m actually working myself up to deal with all the red tape involved with taking online offerings from one school and transferring them to another tomorrow so I can start back up again in January. The school work I don’t mind, it’s all the hassle leading up to it I hate!
My extended family is actually all from New England, BTW, with a significant pocket in the Worcester/Boston/Framingham area. My Grandparents lived in Worcester for many, many, many years. My grandma was the dean of students, I believe, at Worcester State College for many years. There is a residence hall there named after her (Dowden Hall). She still lives in Worcester, at St. Mary’s Health Care Center. My Grandpa passed away on August 23rd and I was in Worcester for his funeral at All Saints on August 30th. They loved that area. I do too, even though I’ve never lived there myself.